We adopted a child.
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收养
Traditional: 收養
shōu yǎng
HSK 3.0 · 6
shōu yǎng · sau1 joeng5 (Jyutping)
- to take in and care for (an elderly person, a dog etc)
- to adopt (a child)
- adoption
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
They adopted the orphan.
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